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yo...you know those little tester bottles of alcohol that you use to get on airplanes, or are sometimes attached to a larger bottle of booze, as a ..'sampler'?? hopefully ya'll know what i mean//

but anyhow those lil' bottles , take one burn a small hole in the side of one and take a piece of alminum foil and put it over the hole...prick a very small pin hole or 2 in the foil..and you may want to use tape or elastics to hold the foil in place...

The gas station sells these Garcia y Vega Crystal Pop cigars. They come in a glass test tube beaker like casing. The user puts the dope in the tube, heats it from the bottom, and inhales the vapor using a straw from the fountain machine. Costs around 3 USD and plus, you get a nice, moist wrap to twist up some greens later on and an ice cold cola. Never had a problem with breakage or the straw melting.

Glass pipe all the way.
One occasion a friend and I were at a dinner party and snuck out to her car for a puff only to realise she'd forgotten her pipe at home. I happened to carrying my glass of wine with me which she snatched from me, skulled the wine, cleaned out the glass and made it work a treat! lol.
Also once in my earlier days i broke my only pipe as i was giving it a quick clean before a session. Fuking devastated! Jumped online and found an alternative; light bulb, bottle cap and straw.
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What I usually do and Im not the very best of it is that I use foil strips. I make a straw out of one strip. And I make a 45 degree folded length wise from the other strip. I make a small funnel for the lighter and adjust the fire to a small fire.

MacGyver lightbulb numbers would probably be my second choice if a proper oil burner pipe isn't available (still enjoyable, but a faaaaar distant second choice). I hate thin glass, so when I used to make lightbulb pipes, I would go for the clear,round globe type bulbs that were somewhere around 4" in diameter. Also, if you have a headshop nearby (that also somehow fails to carry oil burners), then try a glass mini-bong. I had an old one with a cylinder shaped main chamber that almost looked like a fat, flat bottom test tube and cost me all of $9. Worked just fine for vaporizing meth and, just as importantly, the rubber stopper with mouth hose worked extremely well when plugged into a hollowed out lightbulb with a carb blown into it, just remove the metal bowl piece and attached straight tube thats meant to go down into the bong water.

I seriously don't understand the difficulty of finding suitable glass items to blow your own bubble pipe....I was at Hobby Lobby earlier today....HOBBY LOBBY, PEOPLE.....and randomly noticed a two-pack of decently thick test tubes with rubber stoppers marketed as "My First Chemistry Experiment" or something. Seriously cost $1.99....and they gave me 40% off because apparently there was an online coupon floating around that people had been using all day (so basically for no reason at all). Seriously guys, contrary to most of your initial assumptions, you don't have to go and seek out semi-shady products to put to fully shady uses. Maybe its another sign of the continued decline of our public schools, or just an anti-intellectual culture in general, but I remember things like basic cheapo microscopes and slides with salt crystals and play chemistry sets being on the market when I was a kid.....hell, I actually used to have some of that stuff. The raw materials are definitely out there, you just gotta expand your search range beyond the smoke shop and liquor store.....

There are two reasons why my corgi never made his own. 1: He doesn't know the first thing about blowing glass and 2: Where he lives pipes are $2 a piece at the local smoke shop, even the thicker pyrex ones are under $10 he says. If they have banned the sale of them in your state he can understand being adamant about making your own versus foil/light bulb, but he's lucky enough to have the ability to spend a fraction of the time just buying one.

I don't see how people can see their pipe after smoking. After a few hits, my up-close vision gets blurry. I cant tell where the flame is, in relation to the pipe. I have to get people to work the lighter and pipe while i just inhale.

There are two reasons why my corgi never made his own. 1: He doesn't know the first thing about blowing glass and 2: Where he lives pipes are $2 a piece at the local smoke shop, even the thicker pyrex ones are under $10 he says. If they have banned the sale of them in your state he can understand being adamant about making your own versus foil/light bulb, but he's lucky enough to have the ability to spend a fraction of the time just buying one.

Oh, don't get me wrong, I have no intention of blowing them into pipes. I picked them up for.......other plans (mainly because they were like a buck, Amazon has pretty much any lab glassware you can think of for a decent price). I, too, can walk about a block and pick up a thick glass pipe for $5-$8. While this may not be the case everywhere, I'm pretty sure they have things like hobby stores nation wide. Thrown down $20 for a mini-torch (can probably even get away with $10-15 for an unusually powerful butane lighter), and you've got and endless supply of dollar oil burners.

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Originally Posted by SYDNEYbiDUDE84

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Truer words were never spoken...I think that just became one of my core philosophies in life! The wine glass story illustrates an excellent point too: Pretty much anything with made of glass with an even vaguely enclosed area can be used with whatever straw or tube-like object handy as a decently effective smoking device. Doesn't come close to what you can do with a proper glass pipe, but take-home point is that you've pretty much always got options.

Last edited by oc85; 15-04-2013 at 07:53.
Reason: Automerged and then just tweakish knit-picking

Also, the two pronged approach of the Hot Rail can really get the blood flowing. Just make sure to attach a 1/4 inch rubber or plastic tube about 12 inches long to the stem before doing it. AFOAF says there's nothing worse than a molten shard flying up the nose. If your really in a pinch, get a light bulb, torch, screwdriver and a knife. Take the torch and start heating the area where you want the inflow to be. Light bulbs have negative pressure internally, and will pop a hole in the bulb. Next, take your knife, and carefully pry the small metal disk off of the mouth piece. There should be a small indentation in the black glass, so taking the knife press the point into said depression, and slowly twist the knife back and forth to drill the glass. Be sure to do this over a garbage can, and be very careful. Eventually the black glass will crack and fall out. inside will be a glass barrier, so poke a hole through it with sc64,and remove the filament. if Frosted. pour in salt and swirl around, empty and et voila. The world's best oil bulb. Use only when necessary, as bulbs break really easy.

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Last edited by Brimstone; 02-08-2013 at 12:27.
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The gas station sells these Garcia y Vega Crystal Pop cigars. They come in a glass test tube beaker like casing. The user puts the dope in the tube, heats it from the bottom, and inhales the vapor using a straw from the fountain machine. Costs around 3 USD and plus, you get a nice, moist wrap to twist up some greens later on and an ice cold cola. Never had a problem with breakage or the straw melting.

Yes yes and yes. Coming in at a $1.66 with tax at my local gas station. Though I just take my small butane torch and.blow a hole in the tube. Keeping up with a straw was a hassel during a binge.

Ive only been using like 6 months or so, but (and I've already been told I'm very odd for this) when I don't shoot, which is most of the time now since I missed a while back and got an abscess, I actually prefer tin foil. I dunno, it just seems more fun to me, plus I always manage to get a bigger hit and I very rarely manage to torch it...now... anywho I always get frustrated that I can't milk a hit with pipes/lightbulbs. Haven't tried a bong yet though...I have a bad habit, however, of making a brand new one for every hit though (just because) with the result that at the end of a smoke session there will be dozens of little tin foil boats, with a hit or two still in each one, all over the fucking house which is fun when a guest finds a couple. (I'm a tweaker in a group of potheads)nanyway I'm rambling, sooooo yeeeeaaaahhh. Tin foil imo.